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Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Haggard, D.S.O., who 

 in company with his brother Kider has fished most of 

 the Scotch salmon and sea-trout waters, and many of 

 those of Norwajr, was struck with the resemblance of 

 the ouananiche of the Grand Deoharge to the Scotch 

 sea-trout. I recalled his conversation on this point 

 the other day when I read, in a letter from Dr. J. D. 

 Quackenbos to Mr. Cheney, which the latter printed 

 in Forest and Stream, the following description of the 

 Loch Leven trout {Fario kvenensis), which the pro- 

 fessor has transplanted into some of his own waters : 



" So like are the young and adult Loch Levens to our landlocked 

 salmon that many anglers believe a Loch LeVen trout is often fust 

 ■when the exciting cry of 'Salmon ! salmon !' from the fishing fleet 

 greets the first frenzied leap of a supposed puananiche pierced by 

 the lucky steel. One Scottish authority unhesitatingly declares the 

 Loch Leven trout to be a landlocked salmon dwarfed to its present 

 proportions in its shallow miniature ocean. But I believe it to be 

 a landlocked sea-trout. "W^ith its purplish-silver back and silvery 

 sides starred with X and XX spots, it so closely resembles the well- 

 known migratory Salino trutta that foreign experts commonly fail 

 to distinguish between the two fish. The fin-ray formula is iden- 

 tical in each. Moreover, sea-trout that have been confined in fresh 

 water are absolutely indistinguishable from 'the true Mirio levenen- 

 sis." 



Ouananiche ? Or what ? And who that has met 

 and fought the ouananiche of Canadian waters will 

 not identify a near relative of the fish in the follow- 

 ing description by Dr. Quackenbos of the sport afford- 

 ed by the fishing in Loch Leven : 



"There is as much difference between the -killing of one of tliese 

 sublime flsb and the suffocating of an ordinary brown trout as there 

 is between the conquest of our ouananiche and the potting of a 

 sucker. In full view of the castled isle of Mary Stuart, one casts 



